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    The surname Croom

    A surname, carried by 4,407 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C650

    Croom: #7,545 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Croom #7,545, 4,407 people Croom: #7,545 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Croom #7,545, 4,407 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Croom is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,407 people named Croom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,058 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,171.

    #7,545
    rank among US surnames
    4,407
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,362)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,541Lazarus4,41070,010
    #7,542Conlin4,40970,026
    #7,543Kean4,40870,042
    #7,545Croom4,40770,058
    #7,549Jeffcoat4,40670,074
    #7,550Landes4,40470,106

    Who is named Croom

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    48% of people named Croom identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 48%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Crom

    Surnames that sound like Croom

    Croom has the Soundex code C650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C650.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Croom?
    4,407 people in the United States had the surname Croom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,058 Americans. It ranked 7,545th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Croom?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Croom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Croom getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,407 in 2010, up 5.7%.
    What are other spellings of Croom?
    Crom.